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111. From many lands : Australasia and Africa. London :Raphael Tuck & Sons., c 1910. Quarto, chromolithographcard wrappers (spine mended with archival tape), 14pp.(detached), 4 full-page colour illustrations and numerousmonochromes. In the Father Tuck’s Useful KnowledgeSeries. Young children’s geography of the far flung cornersof the British empire. Sketches of Australian Aborigines,New Zealand Maori and other indigenous peoples. $300115. PATON, Frank H. L. The kingdom in the Pacific. London: United Council for Missionary Education, 1912. Firstedition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, bound intapa cloth covered boards, cloth label on spine, 152pp, 16photographic plates of native life in New Guinea and theNew Hebrides. A fine and attractive copy in tapa. $33028112. The Anchor : the Australian and New Zealand Yachting &Motorboating Newspaper. Sydney: Galwey & Co., 1911-1912. Vol.1, nos.1-13 [all published], complete, bound inone volume. Quarto, boards, gilt title, 278pp. Photographicillustrations throughout. Each issue has contributions fromcorrespondents in all the Australian states as well as NewZealand. A fine set. $650113. KRUBER, A., GRIGOREV, C., BARKOV A., CHEFRANOV,S.АВСТРАПЯ и Попярныя Стрaны. [Australia and thepolar regions : an illustrated geographical collection].Moscow : Kushnerev, 1912 (revised and correctededition). Text in Cyrillic. Octavo, quarter bound leatherover patterned boards, 489pp, 69 photographic plates. Arare Russian work on Australia, very detailed, with muchexamination of the ethnography of Australia, Melanesiaand Polynesia. $850114. HART, Gertrude. The Dream Girl. Melbourne : GeorgeRobertson & Company, 1912. Octavo, illustrated clothcovers, 235pp, illustrated. Inscribed by author to MissVernon Williams on half-title page, wife of the novelist.$90116. MEEK, A.S. A Naturalist in Cannibal Land. London : T.Fisher Unwin, 1913. Octavo, pictorial cloth, deckle edges,238pp, 36 photographic plates. Queensland author’saccount of his travels in Dutch and British New Guineaand the Solomon Islands. Anthropological and zoologicalobservations. $300
117. BRENNAN, Christopher John. Poems. Sydney : G.B. Philipand Son, 1913 [1914]. Octavo, quarter buckram over plainboards (light stains), 196pp. Presentation copy of the firstedition, inscribed to Walter Stone and dated 1930; ex librisWalter Stone, with Stone’s pencilled note on front freeendpaper. With annotations and two additional manuscriptpoems in Brennan’s hand tipped in: Thou cricket that atdusk (1899) and Wisdom (1906). Light scattered foxing.Accompanied by the rare original 4pp. prospectus and atelegram (dated 6 July 1944) to Mrs M. Stone: Deepestsympathy from Mr & Mrs Brennan. A superb associationcopy with additional content. $1000118. The drawings of Ruby Lind (Mrs. Will Dyson). London : CecilPalmer, 1920. Quarto, buckram over papered boards, gilttitle, 51pp., illustrated in black and white and colour. A finecopy. Loosely enclosed, a signed letter from the publisherto Edward Dyson, Ruby’s brother in law, explaining thatthis work is ‘for private circulation only … in no sense acommercial undertaking’, and available only to subscribers.Also included, Dyson’s note to Robert Croll, informing himhe is co-ordinating the list of Australian subscribers, andincluding him therein. This correspondence gives reasonfor the rarity of The drawings of Ruby Lind, probably nomore than a couple of hundred copies were printed.$1500119. LEMAITRE, Jules. ABC. Petits contes par Jules Lemaitrede l’Academie Francaise avec des images de Job. Tours :Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, 1919. Quarto, decorated boardcovers, 54pp. (faint foxing). A charming series of storiesfor each letter of the alphabet including K for kangourou.This bizarre tale is a quasi-dreamtime explanation for thephysical oddities of the kangaroo: using their pouches tostore stolen fruit incurred the wrath of God, who shortenedtheir front paws to restore peace to the animal kingdom.$440120. TEBBITT, Henri. Story of my life. [Unpublished manuscript],n.d. [c 1921]. Folio, later half-leather binding with raisedbands, gilt title (variant spelling), 99pp manuscript + 96pptypescript (two versions of one work, bound together), somenewspaper clippings, occasional foxing. Autobiographyof the French-born artist Henri Tebbitt (1852-1926), whoarrived in Australia in 1889. He worked in Melbourne asa scene painter at the Theatre Royal, but is chiefly knownfor his watercolours. His work is represented in severalAustralian galleries, including Ballarat and Bendigo. Theautobiography contains some fascinating observations ofthe Australian art scene in the period from 1890 to 1920,seen through the eyes of an outsider. Tebbitt spent time inAdelaide, Launceston, Hobart and Brisbane, but was basedin Sydney for the last twenty years of his life. His particularartistic interest was the depiction of the Australian bush,and he champions Heysen and Martens in this regard. TheMitchell Library holds another manuscript copy of thiswork, according to the introduction, Tebbitt was requestedto compile his autobiography by Mr. Robertson of Angusand Robertson’s, possibly with a view towards publication.$2750121. The art of Sara Levi. Melbourne : Edward A. Vidler, [c1921]. Quarto, gilt lettered papered boards (stain to foreedge, touching a few pages), 28pp., illustrated with colourtipped-in plates. $27529
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